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6:34 PM, Tuesday August 11th 2020

https://imgur.com/a/0wdTHGI

Hello Ive revised the leaf and branches exercise but I wasnt sure if you wanted me to revise the plant with the flowers on the sphere(please let me know if I do need to revise that one). In the leaf exercise I tried to showcase the top and bottom of the leaf. It particularly difficult because at some point the leaf started to twist instead of just oscillating. At the bottom left of my revision i tried to show the bottom of the leaf with a shadow in order to clearly show that its the bottom of the leaf but I'm not sure if it worked out so well. The braches exercise still had chicken scratches I think. It was difficult to keep the ellipses the same shape AND have the lines connecting them to be linear and smooth.

If you believe that I have to revise this section again please do not hesitate to do so. I am not particularly content with this revision and I am prepared to keep working on completing lesson 3 till perfection.

Thank you for the critique!

7:35 AM, Wednesday August 12th 2020

Hey! It's really nice that you've revised your work.

I can see you've put more thoughts into leaves exercise. They look more dynamic, showing both the top and the bottom planes.

I think twisting leaves are not an issue, but having control over when you would like it to twist and when you wouldn't want it to twist is the key here.

I think of the line going from the base of the leaf to the tip of the leaf as vertical axis, and I use imaginary lines perpendicular to that axis as my guide to determine which way the plane of the leaf is facing.

It's a bit hard for me to explain how I think about this... so please refer to images below, and see if they make sense to you:

https://imgur.com/a/5LS4bWK

Your 3D arrows were very well done in the first submission, so I have a feeling you'd have a lot easier time imagining the leaves initially as rectangular planes.

I use shading that follows the direction of my perpendicular guidelines mentioned above... somehow it makes sense to me, but I don't think there is a fixed rules for how you can shade the underside of the leaves.

As for the branches... to be honest, I draw a single continuous line after I draw the ellipses along the central axis... I tried doing overlapping lines, but like you, my lines don't seem to overlap well and they don't look very smooth :-( So... I'm not sure how to advice you on this. One thing I can say is that I do the ghosting lines for my one-stroke curves to make sure it touches the edges of all ellipses.

Next Steps:

Feel free to repeat any of the exercises, but you don't have to aim for perfection!

Learning to draw is a life-long process. You will learn a lot by trying to draw seemingly unrelated things, so go ahead to later lessons if you haven't already done so :) Happy drawing!

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8:43 PM, Thursday August 13th 2020

Thank you and Ill make sure to keep practicing leaves and branches. I'll move on to the next lessons if another user agrees that I am able to go on to the next lesson.

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